William Boyd

An elating read' Sunday TimesA producer. A novelist. An actress.It is summer in 1968, the year of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. There are riots in Paris and the Vietnam War is out of control. While the world is reeling our three characters are involved in making a Swingin' Sixties movie in sunny Brighton.All are leading secret lives. Elfrida is drowning her writer's block in vodka; Talbot, coping with the daily dysfunction of making a film, is hiding something in a secret apartment; and the glamorous Anny is wondering why the CIA is suddenly so interested in her.But the show must go on and, as it does, the trio's private worlds begin to take over their public ones. Pressures build inexorably - someone's going to crack. Or maybe they all will.From one of Britain's best loved writers comes an exhilarating, tender novel that asks the vital questions: what makes life worth living? And what do you do if you find it isn't?

LA NUEVA Y MONUMENTAL NOVELA DE WILLIAM BOYD, «UNO DE NUESTROS MEJORES NARRADORES CONTEMPORÁNEOS». (THE SPECTATOR) «Un viaje salvaje a través del siglo XIX... irresistible».Financial Times «Prácticam

Gabriel Dax, travel writer and accidental spy, is back in the shadows. Unable to resist the allure of his MI6 handler, Faith Green, he has returned to a life of secrets and subterfuge. Dax is sent to Guatemala under the guise of covering a tinderbox presidential election, where the ruthless decisions of the Mafia provoke pitch-black warfare in collusion with the CIA.As political turmoil erupts, Gabriel's reluctant involvement deepens. His escape plan leads him to West Berlin, where he uncovers a chilling realisation: there is a plot to assassinate magnetic young President John F. Kennedy. In a race against time, Gabriel must navigate deceit and danger, knowing that the stakes have never been higher . . .

'Boyd on form is the ultimate in immersive fiction, and Love is Blind is Boyd at the top of his game . . . magnificent' Sunday Times 'A finely judged performance: a deft and resonant alchemy of fact and fiction, of literary myth and imagination' Guardian Book of the Week This is William Boyd's sweeping, heart-stopping new novel. Set at the end of the 19th century, it follows the fortunes of Brodie Moncur, a young Scottish musician, about to embark on the story of his life. When Brodie is offered a job in Paris, he seizes the chance to flee Edinburgh and his tyrannical clergyman father, and begin a wildly different new chapter in his life. In Paris, a fateful encounter with a famous pianist irrevocably changes his future - and sparks an obsessive love affair with a beautiful Russian soprano, Lika Blum. Moving from Paris to St Petersburg to Edinburgh and back again, Brodie's love for Lika and its dangerous consequences pursue him around Europe and beyond, during an era of overwhelming change as the nineteenth century becomes the twentieth.

In his most exhilarating novel yet, William Boyd transports you to the vibrant streets of sixties London, as an accidental spy is drawn into the shadows of espionage and obsession . . .William Boyd once again brings to the spy novel his particular storytelling genius. The result is brilliant fun MICK HERRONWonderfully ambiguous with notions of twisted reality and uncertain memory ANN CLEEVESA wonderfully intricate novel of espionage and elegant skulduggery JOHN BANVILLE------An accidental spy. A web of betrayals. A mystery that will take you around the world . . .Gabriel Dax is a young man haunted by the memories of a tragedy: every night, when sleep finally comes, he dreams about his childhood home in flames. His days are spent on the move as an acclaimed travel writer, capturing changing landscapes in the grip of the Cold War. When hes offered the chance to interview a political figure, his ambition leads him unwittingly into the shadows of espionage.

William Boyd, uno de los autores europeos más prestigiososde las últimas décadas y que «probablemente ha escrito másclásicos que ninguno de sus coetáneos» (Daily Telegraph), vuelvecon su obra más tre

La amenaza de quienes viven día a día atisbando a un perseguidor persistente e implacable.En 1939 una joven de origen ruso era reclutada por los Servicios Secretos Británicos. Treinta y siete años despues esta misma mujer le hace entrega a su hija Ruth del primer capitulo de su historia secreta.La vida de Eva Delectorskaya es un relato de espionaje y contraespionaje que revela un oscuro episodio de las relaciones entre Inglaterra y Estados Unidos. Ruth ira descubriendo que su madre ha vivido por y para el engaño y que, años despues, aquella joven que jugo un papel decisivo en la historia europea sigue existiendo dentro de ella, tan alerta y recelosa como siempre.Sin respiro es una tensa, minuciosa y deslumbrante novela de espionaje en la que William Boyd nos sumerge en la naturaleza del miedo, de la mentira y la traicion, en un mundo que ofrece como unica alternativa la desconfianza.Reseñas: La ficcion britanica contiene la rica tradicion del thriller literario, desde Wilkie Collins, pasando por Graham Greene hasta John Le Carre, y William Boyd, con su nueva novela Sin respiro se asienta firmemente en ella.Times Literary SupplementBoyd ha escrito un muy buen relato. Con su voz caracteristica -sobria y elegante- explora la verdadera idea del espionaje... Boyd es sin duda uno de los mas importantes novelistas britanicos contemporaneos.San Francisco Chronicle ... Un thriller de espionaje elegantemente escrito sobre un fascinante y en gran parte oculto episodio de las relaciones entre Estados Unidos e Inglaterra.The Washington PostWilliam Boyd busca, de la forma mas directa y clara posible, conectar con ese tipo de lector que añora ciertos tiempos en que los narradores se dedicaban a contar y visualizar, a divertir y entretener. Enrique Vila-Matas, El Pais

1969. Espion chevronné, membre surdoué des services secrets de Sa Majesté, James Bond célèbre ses quarante-cinq ans avec une mission peu ordinaire : mettre un terme à la guerre civile qui déchire le

Amory Clay a un prénom d’homme et des rêves de grandeur. Dévorée dès son plus jeune âge par sa passion pour la photographie, elle ne recule ni devant l’adversité ni devant le scandale. Portraitiste m

Vienna. 1913. It is a fine day in August when Lysander Rief, a young English actor, walks through the city to his first appointment with the eminent psychiatrist, Dr. Bensimon. Sitting in the waiting room he is anxiously pondering the nature of his problem when an extraordinary woman enters. She is clearly in distress, but Lysander is immediately drawn to her strange, hazel eyes and her unusual, intense beauty. Later the same day they meet again, and a more composed Hettie Bull introduces herself as an artist and sculptor, and invites Lysander to a party hosted by her lover, the famous painter Udo Hoff. Compelled to attend and unable to resist her electric charm, they begin a passionate love affair. Life in Vienna becomes tinged with the frisson of excitement for Lysander. He meets Sigmund Freud in a cafe, begins to write a journal, enjoys secret trysts with Hettie and appears to have been cured. London, 1914. War is stirring, and events in Vienna have caught up with Lysander. Unable to live an ordinary life, he is plunged into the dangerous theatre of wartime intelligence - a world of sex, scandal and spies, where lines of truth and deception blur with every waking day. Lysander must now discover the key to a secret code which is threatening Britain's safety, and use all his skills to keep the murky world of suspicion and betrayal from invading every corner of his life. Moving from Vienna to London's west end, the battlefields of France and hotel rooms in Geneva, Waiting for Sunrise is a feverish and mesmerising journey into the human psyche, a beautifully observed portrait of wartime Europe, a plot-twisting thriller and a literary tour de force from the bestselling author of Any Human Heart, Restless and Ordinary Thunderstorms.

This is the Sunday Times Bestseller. It is 1969 and James Bond is about to go solo, recklessly motivated by revenge. A seasoned veteran of the service, 007 is sent to single-handedly stop a civil war in the small West African nation of Zanzarim. Aided by a beautiful accomplice and hindered by the local militia, he undergoes a scarring experience which compels him to ignore M's orders in pursuit of his own brand of justice. Bond's renegade action leads him to Washington, D.C., where he discovers a web of intrigue and witnesses fresh horrors. Even if Bond succeeds in exacting his revenge, a man with two faces will come to stalk his every waking moment.

Consulter un psychanalyste a parfois des conséquences inattendues: en proie à des troubles sexuels, Lysander croise la fascinante Hettie chez son thérapeute viennois et tombe fou amoureux. Acteur agu

Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary, but Logan Mountstuart's - lived from the beginning to the end of the twentieth century - contains more than its fair share of both. As a writer who finds inspiration with Hemingway in Paris and Virginia Woolf in London, as a spy recruited by Ian Fleming and betrayed in the war and as an art-dealer in '60s New York, Logan mixes with the movers and shakers of his times. But as a son, friend, lover and husband, he makes the same mistakes we all do in our search for happiness. Here, then, is the story of a life lived to the full - and a journey deep into a very human heart.

Nat Tate, pintor abstracto, alcohólico y desventurado, se arrojó a las gélidas aguas neoyorquinas en enero de 1960. Nunca apareció su cadáver y apenas se hallarían algunos restos de su trabajo (dieciocho exactamente), pues el mismo se habia tomado la molestia de destruirlo poco antes de morir. Muchos años despues, un variopinto grupo compuesto por David Bowie, Gore Vidal, William Boyd y John Richardson (biografo de Picasso) convoco una fiesta de homenaje en la casa de Jeff Koons. Alli se leyeron fragmentos de este libro a la crema cultural de Manhattan, la cual, segun cuentan las cronicas, recordaba vagamente al inolvidable artista, aparecio el formidable merito de sus residuos y se sintio hondamente impresionada por su tragico destino.Asistian criticos, marchantes, directores de museo, periodistas, supermodelos y notables como Frank Stella, Julian Schnabel, John Ashbery, Jay Mclnerney, Siri Hustvedt, Paul Auster o Michael Collins. Fue sin duda un acontecimiento memorable, que por inesperados motivos, ocuparia largas columnas de prensa durante varias semanas y que ha seguido coleando hasta hoy sin menoscabo del prestigio postumo adquirido por el pintor, cuya exigencia obra rebota esporadicamente en la grandes casas de subastas. ¿Pero quien fue Nat Tate? Esta perfida biografia desvela este borroso enigma. Porque el lector acaba contemplando el libro o, dicho de otro modo, que esta delante de sus narices.

An Ice-Cream War is William Boyd''s sparkling debut novel on the grimly comic side of conflict, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.''What do you think would happen if I shot an elephant in the balls?''''I think it would hurt a great deal.''Millions die on the Western Front but in East Africa a quite different war is being waged - one with little point and which is so ignored that it will carry on after the Armistice because no one bothers to tell both sides to stop.As the conflict sweeps up natives and colonials, so those left at home and those fighting abroad find themselves unable to escape the tide of history bearing down on them.

It is 1969 and James Bond is about to go solo, recklessly motivated by revenge.A seasoned veteran of the service, 007 is sent to single-handedly stop a civil war in the small West African nation of Zanzarim. Aided by a beautiful accomplice and hindered by the local militia, he undergoes a scarring experience which compels him to ignore Ms orders in pursuit of his own brand of justice. Bonds renegade action leads him to Washington, D.C., where he discovers a web of intrigue and witnesses fresh horrors.Even if Bond succeeds in exacting his revenge, a man with two faces will come to stalk his every waking moment.